Author: David Wright

Libertarians and Liberals

History Podcasts. I’ve downloaded the whole series.

Maybe not

It truly is.

Slow, unathletic, vaguely homoerotic, illogical, anti-climactic. It has it all.

Hilarious

I always feel stupid when I comment on these things, so here’s the link:
evidence that speciation occurs as a response to a separating event.

I once joked about doing this when I have kids some day.

This rings true to me. The idea is that policy analysts criticize one kind of mistake, but their solution contains the exact same mistake, but dressed up differently.

I’m sure Robin Hanson would call this the difference between near and far thinking. The idea is a bit strange, but it suggests and we think differently when analyzing different kinds of problems – ones that are near (identifying problems with regulation) are easier to be clear on. When we go far out our analysis rests on a few stupid assumptions and becomes a caricature.

It’s actually about how best to succeed.

and funny, and bitter. And about poetry, but don’t let that scare you away.
h/t the awl

I killed the Earth with a 5000 km sized iron comet hitting the planet at a 90 degree angle.

Boom